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LOS ANGELES — Sitting next
to Buster Grabbe brings on an un
easy feeling.
You keep looking warily around
for the alligators and lions. Or
waiting to get zapped by Ming the
Merciless, the evil emperor of the
universe. Or anticipating the rush
of Killer Kane and his battalions of
robots.
For Grabbe, those were every
day occurrences. And it’s hard to
imagine he isn’t fighting the fan
tasy foes anymore.
But Buster Grabbe — who as
Flash Gordon fought Ming the
Merciless, as Buck Rogers battled
Killer Kane and as Tarzan warded
off daily attacks by wild creatures
— is now 72 years old.
And those television shows and
movies of the 1930s and ’40s are
long gone.
But don’t get the idea Grabbe is
some ancient relic, some worn-out
actor on the doorstep of the Great
Stage in the Sky.
Despite his age, he’s still a tan
dynamo, with rippling chest mus
cles and powerful arms and legs.
He swims two or more miles a day
and looks like he could still knock
the lights out of the creatures of
the universe and the jungles.
And he makes it clear that when
he reminisces he’d rather talk less
about acting and more about the
event that allowed him to become
an actor — the gold medal he won
in the 400-meter freestyle event in
the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles
in a swim stadium next to the Col
iseum.
Grabbe, along with 1972 Olym
pic swim champion Mark Spitz,
recently dropped by the stadium
for the McDonald’s Olympic
Youth Swim Meet. Sitting beside
the pool brought forth a flood of
stories.
“See that gate over there?”
Grabbe said. “When I was a stu
dent at Southern Cal, I used to
climb that fence every day at six in
the morning and put in a few hours
of training in the pool.
“They had barbed wire at the
top and that made it pretty tough.
But now they’ve got that damn
sheet of metal and it’s impossible
to get over.”
Grabbe recalled the finals of the
400-meter freestyle. He pointed
out the lane he was in and the
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lanes his chief rivals were in, and a
wide grin creased his face.
“I had a close call for the gold
medal,” he said. “The Frenchman
almost beat me. I watched him in
trials and he always slowed down
near the end and got beat by one
or two guys.
“I figured he wasn’t in shape.
But I found out that was all part of
his act. He just wanted everyone
to think he didn’t have anything
left.
“In the last 50 meters, we were
dead even. As I hit the wall, I
looked over and saw his head bob
in his final stroke and I knew I’d
whipped him. Got him by one-
tenth of a second.”
Grabbe said the biggest thrill of
his life came a minute later.
“I looked up and saw my father
jumping over the fence,” Grabbe
said. “He fought his way through
the police and ran over and hug
ged me.
“He just wouldn’t let go of me.
It was the most excited he’d ever
been in his life.
“It still gives me goosebumps to
think of it. It’s a marvelous
memory.”
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